Rally Held in Washington against Racial Discrimination (+Photos)
WASHINGTON DC (Tasnim) – A group of people in Washington D.C., capital of United States, staged a rally to protest at racial discrimination and police behavior in the US.
According to Tasnim dispatches, the participants carried placards reading "Stop Police Racist Terror", "Black Lives Matter", "End Police Terror", and "Stop the War on Black America".
They also chanted slogans against the US police's racist and inappropriate behavior.
The rally came following several cases in recent months in which American cops killed black citizens in different states.
It was held on the occasion of Soweto Uprising, the series of events in South Africa which led to the massacre of some 700 black students by the apartheid regime in 1976.
The Soweto Uprising, also known as 16 June, were a series of protests led by high school students in South Africa that began on the morning of 16 June 1976.
Students from numerous Sowetan schools began to protest in the streets of Soweto in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools.
An estimated 20,000 students took part in the protests. The number of people who were killed is estimated up to 700.